“Uéyiga”, in the local language of Extremadura (bast territory at the Spanish western border with Portugal) means trace, footprint or marks on the ground, left there from past activities. This is what is all about on the fourth album by Jorge Marredo - this time signing in as himself - and leaving apart the “Satisfaccion Lab” nickname, with he has been releasing for the past years.

The four left traces found on this album are a rabbit hole in which Marredo enters, starting up with a clear image, a simple idea, a barely audible soundscape that early is being transformed until no recognition through signal processing with various synthesisers. By the half of the first track we are already in a multilayered scenario of analogue signals processed in various ways. So, the soundscape that started up the album as a clear statement, just fans out, and dissolves into a bast array of textures, rhythms and environments.

Traces are left of various abstract soundscapes present through the album, scenarios in which Marredo, through analogue signal processing devotes himself to the craft of synthesised sound, still even that we hear echoes of the psychodelic and kosmische music he loves to perform an explore (for instance with the duo project Marredo & Montag) this is pretty much a textural, and soundscapist-point-of-view album, even that those electric signals place us in the uncanny territory of machine sound we cannot forget about what started it all, the soundscape, or field recordings. It’s all there, as a trace, a footprint, something that doesn’t needs to be there because Marredo is very capable of listening through soundscapes and present them under his own umbrella, rearranged, transformed and created from nothing but electric signals.

Truly a pleasure to have him in our catalogue, specially when we are very focused on releasing works by our local artists, working neighbourly a few blocks away of the Audiotalaia Headquarters, just like Avelino Saavedra, Jean Montag and a few more.

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Tracklist:
01. Cuatro
02. 4
03. أربعة
04. IV

_Credits:

All tracks produced and arranged by Jorge Marredo in 2013. All sounds produced and treated the following gear Moog LittleFatty, Dave Smith Mopho, Roland JP8080 and a Novation Supernova polyphonic synthesizer.

_Reviews:Jorge Marredo’s ‘Uyiga’ is a hyperactive work. Pieces jump up and down hysterically. Noise bursts forth with little in the way of conventional structure. Elements suggest an abstract approach akin to Editions Mego’s stranger artists. Most of this appears more interested in analog or older versions of experimentation. Immediate digital pastures are apparent but lack the glossy sheen. Rather these sounds prefer to muck around in lower fidelity, with true grit surrounding them. Little samples occasionally even break through the dense clouds and uneasy frequencies. Instability is the heart of each of these songs as they try (with some success) to tear themselves apart for fun.‘Cuatro’ starts things off with a near-natural insect sound. This is clouded up with layer upon layer until the original source material is defeated in exchange for an aural field that strongly resembles chaos. By the end everything is stripped away to reveal an extremely grating high pitched noise. On ‘4’ Jorge Marredo approximates the pulse-orientated work of Florian Hecker. Right in the background sounds try to better define themselves yet ultimately fail. Due to the constant pulsating mass this track develops a rhythm of sorts.‘?’ is a palette cleanser. Little goes on that could be considered outright abrasive. Compared to the previous tracks it is almost mellow. Of course ending it is the colossal ‘IV’ which goes virtually everywhere. A neat little synopsis of everything that precedes it the track handles deep bass rumbles, high pitched noise, grey drones, and assorted filtered samples. ‘Uyiga’ overall is a complete trip of an album.

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